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SUMMARY:Workshop: "Emergence\, Causality\, and Complexity"
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Erica Onnis\, Ana María Guzmán\, Alexander Schubert \nAbstract: \nAccording to many authors involved in the debate about emergence\, ontological emergent phenomena can be characterized as partially dependent on a more fundamental base and causally novel in instantiating new causal properties able to make them autonomous. Moreover\, emergence is often recognized as a relevant feature in complex systems\, namely those systems composed of several parts mutually influencing each other and producing unexpected and sometimes highly organized behaviors. The significance of the relationship between emergence\, causal efficacy\, and complexity is clear. However\, how to conceive more precisely this connection and the notions at play is far from straightforward. \nFrom a historical point of view\, one particular type of complex object sparked the debates that continue today: the organism. After the advent of biology as a science\, the question of whether the complexity of biological phenomena introduces some kind of non-linear causality shaped the search for a middle position between mechanism and vitalism in\, for  example\, post-Kantian idealism and\, subsequently\, British Emergentism which gave the middle position its contemporary name. Debates about constraints and their causal relevance in biology prove that such historical considerations are still relevant today. \nThe international workshop Emergence\, Causality\, and Complexity aims to bring together contemporary and historically inspired philosophical perspectives on the nature of\nemergent phenomena\, their causal dimension\, and their role in shaping our view of complexity. \nPlease find the program of the workshop here. \nIf you would like to attend\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-emergence-causality-and-complexity/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241127T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241127T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20240917T135143Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: From IP and Cookies to IDFA/GAID. Towards a Historical Sociology of (Digital) Addressing - Ricky Wichum
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this lecture has been canceled due to health reasons. We will continue our lecture series on December 18. Thank you for your understanding.  \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-ws2425-4/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024/25,Lecture Series 24/25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241218T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241218T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20240917T135224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T073441Z
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SUMMARY:Spaces of Research Beyond the Laboratory? The University as a Neglected Research Object in STS - David Kaldewey
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-ws2425-5/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024/25,Lecture Series 24/25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250108T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250108T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20240917T135249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T092701Z
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SUMMARY:Communicating Science and Technology. How Can STS Benefit From Historical Semantics? - Désirée Schauz
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-ws2425-6/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024/25,Lecture Series 24/25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250116T200000
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CREATED:20250305T151739Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture “The (global) politics of Technology Assessment – discursive-deliberative or agonistic?” – Pierre Delvenne
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the “STS Forum” organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center) at RWTH Aachen University. \nAbstract: \nThe dynamics of convergence of specific practices (e.g.\, responsible research and innovation [RRI]\, technology assessment [TA]) across research and innovation policies are frequently interrogated by STS scholarship. Progress itself has often been defined by its ability to make projects expand without changing their framing assumptions. This quality is “scalability” [and it refers to] the ability of a project to change scales smoothly without any change in project frames (Tsing 2015: 38). In this talk\, I will explore the possible standardization of TA practices and knowledge norms and its consequences at a time when the TA community is considering that TA can and should go global beyond nation-specific practices to meet the current socio-technical challenges of our time. \nCan TA practices be scaled up to reach and engage a global audience? Can there be a global TA organization? Given the normative and philosophical roots of TA that make it unique among the many other practices that aim to support decision making and public debate\, the only sustainable answer to these questions forces us to consider TA’s relation to democracy. I will start by arguing that the politics and practices of scaling TA are matters of democratic politics\, since there is no viable TA without a strong democratic life. \nFrom this point\, I will ask: What kind of democracy are TA practitioners committed to\, and how has this shaped the approaches they have developed to support decision-making and public debate? What are the limits of these visions in terms of the insights and revitalization they can still bring to TA practices and democratic orders? With these questions in mind\, I would like to explore the roots of TA in relation to democracy. Drawing on recent work (Delvenne and Parotte 2024)\, I will begin with a brief overview of four theories of democracy that I find relevant and useful for making sense of TA’s crucial role and activity in the tumultuous times that many democracies are currently experiencing. First\, I will consider the theories of discursive and deliberative democracy developed by Benjamin Barber and Jürgen Habermas\, which are often considered by the TA community to be at the core of TA’s rationales and methodologies (van Est/Brom 2012). I will then include the ideas of two authors who theorized agonistic models of democracy – Noortje Marres and Chantal Mouffe – whose approaches that value conflict and dissensus have somehow been neglected by the TA community and\, to a large extent\, by scholarly work on TA. \nI will argue that the contribution of discursive and deliberative theories\, while crucial\, is now leading to an impasse from which a way out must be found. The successes of the model of democracy sought by Habermas and Barber remain mixed. All around\, the framework of representative democracy is cracking and in need of deep repair given the widening gap between those who govern and those who are governed. As an institutional embodiment of democratic ideals translated into practice\, if it is to continue to play a pioneering role\, adapted to the contemporary challenges posed by the rapid rise of far-right extremism and epistemic ambiguity about the status of science\, TA needs to renew its sources of theoretical inspiration. \nI am not advocating a switch between discursive-deliberative and agonistic approaches. Instead\, my intention is to blur the traditional distinctions between these models of democracy\, leading to the conclusion that it is fruitful to consider the boundary between the two as not insurmountable\, in theory as in practice. Identifying what I will call ‘disturbance zones’ at the intersection of these theories of democracy will allow me to consider the global politics of technology assessment. I will do so tentatively\, guided by Anna Tsing’s conceptual lens\, arguing that in the shadow of the zeitgeist of scalability\, it is necessary to turn attention to the nonscalable as a spur to TA theory and practice.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-the-global-politics-of-technology-assessment-discursive-deliberative-or-agonistic-pierre-delvenne/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250121T183000
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SUMMARY:What Role for History and Philosophy of Science in STS? Critical Engagements with Empirical Inquiry - Sabina Leonelli
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our winter semester 2024/25 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-ws2425-7/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024/25,Lecture Series 24/25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250124T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250124T133000
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SUMMARY:ERS invites… Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis: Competition Law in the Digital Era: AI and other new challenges
DESCRIPTION:Professor Stefan Böschen\, Director of the KHK c:o/re\, and the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) of RWTH Aachen University invite you to another lecture of the “ERS invites…” series\, this time featuring Dr. Pēteris Zilgalvis\, Judge at the General Court of the European Union\, to discuss how AI is reshaping the legal landscape from various perspectives. \nFor further information\, please visit the event website.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/ers-invites-dr-peteris-zilgalvis/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C – Generali Saal 639\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250221T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250221T173000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250128T084432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T095405Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond-nature / Beyond-life
DESCRIPTION:Due to the rapid development of materials sciences during the past decades\, such disciplines known as bioinspired materials and biorobotics have posited themselves as domains whose starting point is inspiration from nature\, or more precisely\, from various ‘natural’ or biological objects and processes found in the natural world. For example\, the technology of CRISPR gene editing developed in the 2010s may be elucidating for such projects. These projects in genetics go beyond the common conception of the readability of the world\, and showcase attempts to program nature as an application of genome editing. One may therefore suggest that ‘nature’ does not act any more as a limit beyond which one cannot reach further; rather\, it is a mark which may be or should be transcended. \nAs such examples may show\, some of these developments intend to reach domains that are not only ‘beyond nature’ but also ‘beyond life’. Because many of these projects are often conducted in relation with medical research\, they may result in possibilities of re-writing life while simultaneously re-writing what health and illness may potentially become. Especially due to the advent of cyber technologies\, the emerging artifacts that combine the material with the digital revolutionize medical worlds\, surpassing conceptions of ‘biology as information’. Correcting nature and correlatively correcting life for the purpose of ‘fixing’ or ‘ameliorating’ parts of it opens new inquiries on how understanding\, researching and theorizing life and its being ‘nature’ expand ‘beyond’ these domains. \nThe aim of the workshop is to explore new discourses and conceptual approaches in which the research on ‘beyond-nature’ and ‘beyond-life’ is embedded. We intend to question the ways in which they reflect older traditions\, identify concrete examples that support the use of such concepts\, and examine how they contribute to a new theoretical landscape in the 21st century. \nLink to the Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://rwth.zoom-x.de/j/61559379749?pwd=ruk1LvHssje509aWa2269tCn2760If.1 \nMeeting ID: 615 5937 9749\nPasscode: 334765 \nProgram \n10:30 Coffee and cookies \n11:00-11:30: Denisa Butnaru\, Michael Friedman: Introduction \n11:30-12:30: Falk Tauber (Freiburg)\nBeyond natural motion – Plant and animals as inspiration for soft autonomous machines \n12:30-14:00 Lunch \n14:00-15:00: Bianca Jansky (Augsburg)\nMundane every-day life maintenance and repair-work in algorithm-mediated (self)care with devices in\, on and with bodies \n15:00-16:00: Eric Deibel (Maynooth)\nAI and humans who think about life: on neurotechnology and generative biology \n16:00-16:15 Coffee Break \n16:15-17:15: Ulrich Schwaneberg (Aachen)\nProtein engineering of adhesion promoting peptides for innovations in material science that go beyond-nature \n19:30: Dinner \n  \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/beyond-nature-beyond-life/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250325T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250327T153000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:International Conference “Cultures of Research”
DESCRIPTION:The international conference “Cultures of Research” takes stock of the first four years of the fellow program at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Rearch (c:o/re). During these years\, more than fifty international fellows came to the KHK c:o/re to explore the transformation of research in its many facets. Topics such as the digitalization of science\, the growing influence of AI on research practices\, the organizational transformations in science\, the “engineering of science”\, and the historical as well as intercultural comparison of “varieties of science” have been widely discussed. The conference “Cultures of Research” will focus the discussions on these topics in various panels with current and alumni fellows as well as members of the scientific advisory board of the KHK c:o/re. \nA detailed program with all speakers and titles can be found in this document. \nProgram \n\n\n\n\n\nTime\nTuesday\, 25th\nWednesday\, 26th\nThursday\, 27th\n\n\n09:00-12:00\nWelcome and Introduction\nPanel 4 “Digitalisation of Science” Lecture by Franck Varenne\nPanel 7 “Expanded STS” & Euregio\n\n\n \nPanel 1 “Historicizing Science” Lecture by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger\n \n \n\n\nLunch\n \n \n \n\n\n13:00-15:30\nPanel 2 “Dealing with Complexity” Lecture by Mary Morgan\nPanel 5 “Varieties of Science” Lecture by Alfred Nordmann\nPanel 8 “Art and Research” \n\n\nCoffee break\n \n \n \n\n\n16:00-18:00\nPanel 3 “Lifelikeness”\nPanel 6 “Freedom of Research” Lectures by Frederik Stjernfelt & Steve Fuller\nDeparture\n\n\n18:00-20:00\n\nEvening Keynote Lecture by Ad Aertsen \n\nConference Dinner\n \n\n\n \nReception (finger food)\n \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/international-conference-cultures-of-research/
LOCATION:Forum M\, Mayersche\, Buchkremerstraße 1-7\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250403T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250403T153000
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SUMMARY:Workshop "Engaged Social Studies of Modelling"
DESCRIPTION:Modelling and computing are increasingly at the heart of innovation\, governance\, and public policy. Yet\, many modelers remain detached from the social\, ethical\, and political implications of their work\, often viewing these aspects as irrelevant to the success of the model. The flexibility\, variety\, and resistance to falsification\, coupled with their status as authoritative evidence-making technologies\, have also enabled models to distance themselves from public scrutiny and social critique. \nFor years\, historians and philosophers of science\, and researchers in Science and Technology Studies have studied climate\, health\, environment\, and economics models. However\, these insights have often been fragmented\, external to modeling communities\, and disconnected from their everyday concerns and practices\, perpetuating the “two cultures” divide\, famously described by C.P. Snow. \nIn the wake of global experience of modelling COVID-19\, however\, the social and political dimensions of modeling have come into sharper focus within modeling communities themselves\, and the call for more responsible modeling and computing is now gaining momentum. \nThis shift presents an opportunity to bridge these divides. This workshop aims to capitalize on this moment\, as the social critique of modeling is now beginning to catch the attention of the modelling community. We will begin by discussing what social studies of modelling is\, and how it can evolve from an external reflection into a transformative\, engaged research program that works within and alongside modelling communities. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \n Program: \n09:00 – 9:30: Welcome & Coffee \n09:30 – 11:00: Opening Discussion: Ehsan Nabavi\, Andrea Saltelli\, Lieke Melsen\, Stefan Böschen\nBrief introductions + initial reflections on ‘social studies of modelling’ (framed by a short draft shared in advance) \n11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break \n11:15 – 12:45: Roundtable: ‘Engaged social studies of modelling?’ \n12:45 – 14:00: Lunch Break \n14:00 – 15:30: Collaboration and Reflection on Next Steps\nMapping intersections and possibilities for collaborations. Reflections\, next steps\, and possible ways to continue the conversation
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-engaged-social-studies-of-modelling/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250416T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250417T153000
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SUMMARY:Tagung "Digitale Aufklärung" der DGPhil
DESCRIPTION:You can find the program in this document. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/tagung-ag-digitalitatsforschung-der-dgphil/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250416T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250417T173000
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SUMMARY:Workshop "After Networks: Reframing Scale\, Reimagining Connections"
DESCRIPTION:If “Expanded STS” can also be understood as a platform – in a sense that it gathers different disciplines that eventually go back to their original research field – the workshop “After Networks: reframing scale\, reimagining connections” proposes a direct connection with the KHK c:o/re’s 2024 research theme. The interdisciplinary program\, combining art and internet studies\, also puts together different approaches on how science and technology are configured in other spheres beyond academia. Gathering scholars\, artists and activists who have been working on disruptive understanding of digital systems\, this two-day event will discuss alternative ways to reimagine connections in contrast to increasingly monopolistic and financially motivated social media platforms. \nIn the last few years\, we have witnessed an unprecedented crisis in the way social interactions have merged with the informational space. The current “space of the world”\, as the artificial space of social media platforms has been called (Couldry\, 2025)\, is designed and controlled by corporations with strictly business purposes\, putting at risk a sense of community in a devastating way. How can the future of the internet be imagined beyond social media platforms? What can we learn from other networks or other notions of space devised by artists? In which ways can digital communication be grounded on equity\, common ownership and sustainability? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the workshop. \nThe program includes an opening artist talk with Eduardo Kac\, a keynote speech with the media scholar Lori Emerson\, who is launching her new book “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook” (Anthology Editions\, 2025) and a round table focused on a community-centered perspective of networks. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \nYou can find an overview of the speakers here. \nProgram: \nApril 16:  \n16:30 – 18:30: Artist talk\nEduardo Kac: Dialogical Art on Earth and in Space\nModerated by Nathalia Lavigne \nRecognized for his pioneering work in the fields of telepresence\, bioart\, holographic poetry and space art\, Eduardo Kac has been developing artworks since the early 1980s that explore the idea of what he calls “dialogical art”. His work articulates processes of communication between different spheres and agents\, and between both humans and non-humans\, such as animals\, plants and robots. In this talk\, Kac will focus on his recent works developed in outer space\, showing their connection with earlier works from the 1980s and 1990s in which he expanded communication in art to include the non-human. The lecture is followed by a screening of the documentary Inner Telescope\, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac (2017\, 35 min)\, directed by Virgile Novarina. \nApril 17:  \n9:30: Introduction of the project “After Memory” (more info here)\nNathalia Lavigne and Lisa Deml \n10:00 – 12:00: Keynote\nLori Emerson: The Future of the Internet is a Future of Networks\nModerated by Ana María Guzmán \nIn the occasion of the launch of “Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook” (Anthology Editions\, 2025)\, Lori Emerson will present some case studies gathered in the book: networks that existed before or outside of the internet\, digital as well as analog\, IRL as well as imagined\, state-sponsored systems of control as well as homebrew communities in the footnotes of hacker culture. She is the Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Intermedia Arts\, Writing\, and Performance Program at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She is also co-author of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021)\, author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press June\, 2014)\, and editor of numerous collections. \n12:00 – 14:00: Lunch and coffee \n14:30 – 16:30: Roundtable\nTatiana Bazzichelli\, Geert Lovink\, João C. Magalhães\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, and Bruna Zanolli: Local networks: reframing scale\nModerated by Nathalia Lavigne \nIn times when the ‘extinction internet’ notion has been claimed from a “platform-in-the-age-climate-collapse perspective” (Lovink\, 2024)\, which other telecommunication infrastructures could be developed in this current configuration? How can a more nourishing sense of community be recreated beyond the social disintegration naturalized on social media? Gathering five researchers who have been working on disruptive understanding of digital systems\, this roundtable will focus on a community-centered perspective of networks and their importance in the current context. Geert Lovink and Tatiana Bazzichelli will talk about the organization format of the Institute of Network Cultures and the Disruption Network Lab – founded by each of them in 2004 and 2014\, respectively. Focusing on the challenges around inequalities affecting particularly the Global South\, Bruna Zanolli will present recent projects developed by indigenous communities in Brazil\, while João C. Magalhães will discuss the potential use of deliberative democracy\, and in particular of online citizens’s councils\, to address platform speech governance issue. Lastly\, Alex Wermer-Colan will talk about the coalition Philly Community Wireless\, co-created by him in the outskirts of Philadelphia in 2020. \nHave a look at the event poster here. \nHeader Image:\n© Illustration of SSTV event “Still Life Alive” (by Carlos Fadon Vicente) which also included “Intercities São Paulo / Pittsburgh” from 1988\, organized by the Digital Art Exchange (headed by artist Bruce Breland) [from DAX archives\, Carnegie Mellon University\, “Intercities Sao Paul-Pittsburgh” Jan. 25\, 1988 Letter of May 31 to Breland/Kocher from Matuck FF44]
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/after-networks-reframing-scale-reimagining-connections/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250428T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250428T173000
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SUMMARY:Science-Art Installation Experiment "Melodic Pigments: Exploring New Synesthesia"
DESCRIPTION:Science-Art Installation Experiment by Yasmin Vega (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Masahiko Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Institute of Science Tokyo) \nSynesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in another sensory or cognitive pathway. An example of synesthesia is experiencing “colors” in response to sensory information. This phenomenon can manifest as perceiving and feeling “colors” when hearing certain sounds\, reading letters\, or even tasting or smelling something. \nIn this installation\, we aim to train a machine using machine learning based on databases that map the correlation between emotions and colors in response to certain sounds. The machine will then demonstrate the colors it imagines and feels when it hears a sound\, thereby expressing its own form of new synesthesia in machines. \nThrough these explorations\, we seek to deepen our understanding of synesthesia in machines and its emergent functions\, moving beyond mere sympathy or empathy between humans and machines. Additionally\, we aim to explore methodologies for visualizing the internal cognitive processes of machines. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. \n— \nCredits header photo: Masahiko Hara
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/melodic-pigments-exploring-new-synesthesia/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250507T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250507T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Innovation as Res Publica: The New Governance of Technoscience and its Politics – Nina Frahm
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology Studies and the STS Forum organized by the HumTec (Human Technology Center) at RWTH Aachen University. \nAbstract: \nImperatives of technoscientific innovation have become a ubiquitous leitmotiv for public policies in the 21st century. Driven by increased public investments in research and development and fueled by hope and hype regarding the benefits of emerging technologies for society\, innovation is no longer a mere task of the market but a central concern of democracies in their pursuit of desirable futures. Yet\, innovation’s intrinsic uncertainty\, its risks and possible harms for people and the planet also present a challenge for public institutions when it comes to legitimizing innovation efforts. \nIn my research\, I follow the turn to innovation as res publica – a public thing – and argue that it is enabled by a shift from ‘hard’ regulatory instruments to tools and frameworks for the ‘soft’ governance of technoscience such as ethics guidelines and principles\, public engagement exercises\, and co-creation processes. Rather than following technocratic rationales\, the new governance of technoscience relies on new forms of reasoning and expertise that grant society\, its values and needs a central role in shaping innovation trajectories. As such\, it is key for the production of powerful imaginaries of democratic sovereignty vis-à-vis innovation and corollary ideals of socio-technical order. By zooming into the field of AI and emerging neurotechnologies\, I examine the situated politics of new governance regimes\, and in particular\, their critical role in the making of a body politic in the innovation era. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/innovation-as-res-publica-the-new-governance-of-technoscience-and-its-politics-nina-frahm/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250513T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250513T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250417T083928Z
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SUMMARY:Design Meets Evolution: Theory and Practice - Theodore von Kármán Lecture with Victor de Lorenzo
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe prevailing view of biological evolution is not unlike bricolage/pastiche/tinkering – in sharp contrast with rational engineering. Yet\, different paths often lead to solutions that coincide or converge whether they emerge from naturally-occurring evolution or rationally designed. Such a conjunction – often presented as a mere anecdote – in fact reveals the ability of biological systems to physically explore solution spaces and gravitate towards information-rich attractors\, which can be found through different routes. The consequences of this notion for bioengineering are remarkable\, as it enables solutions to multi-objective optimization challenges not yet amenable to all-rational approaches. The ensuing technical question is how to bring about hyper-diversification not only of genomic sequences but also environmental parameters for securing the desired performance of a given synthetic device. This issue will be illustrated with a number of practical cases where naturally-occurring or artificially enhanced variability was key to find ideal outcomes to otherwise intractable design hitches of interest for industrial and environmental biotechnology. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/design-meets-evolution-theory-and-practice-theodore-von-karman-lecture-with-victor-de-lorenzo/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250521T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250521T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Expanding STS: Art\, Science\, and Technology Studies (ASTS) - Hannah Star Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nArt and science are all around us: in the academy\, in galleries\, and in the news. How do we make sense of the power that these two categories hold in our society? And is this process new? In this lecture\, Rogers explores how the tools of Science and Technology Studies (STS) can provide critical insights into art and science projects\, highlighting the practices of these knowledge-making communities as discussed in her book Art\, Science\, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press\, 2022). Rogers’ work challenges the idea that art and science are inherently separate or incompatible. Instead\, she suggests that these fields are better understood as knowledge communities that are constantly negotiating\, shaping\, and blurring their boundaries. This approach reframes how we think about the roles of art and science in society\, and it also points to a new subdiscipline—Art\, Science\, and Technology Studies (ASTS)—which blends the insights of both fields to explore their interconnectedness. This framework can deepen our understanding of how these disciplines shape social worlds. By examining artistic practices through the lens of STS and showing how art can inform STS inquiry\, Rogers highlights a dynamic and evolving relationship between science and art. This approach invites us to think beyond the traditional categories and consider the fluidity of knowledge production\, where the boundaries of art and science are constantly in flux\, influenced by politics\, culture\, and technological advances. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 lecture series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/expanding-sts-art-science-and-technology-studies-asts-hannah-star-rogers/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2025
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250614
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SUMMARY:Tagung "Der singuläre Satz"
DESCRIPTION:Tagung “Der singuläre Satz” by the Research Area “Wissenskulturen” of the Faculty Arts and Humanities of RWTH Aachen University in cooperation with the KHK c:o/re. The event will be held in German. \nAbstract: \nSinguläre Sätze zirkulieren in unterschiedlichen Wissenskulturen. Manche dieser Sätze\, etwa mathematische Sätze\, Weisheitssätze\, Gnomen und Aphorismen\, sind von vornherein als Einzelsätze konzipiert\, andere stammen aus umfangreicheren Texten und haben ein Eigenleben entwickelt. In Einzelsätzen wird Wissen in prägnanter Form verdichtet und überliefert; das Zitieren\, Sammeln\, De- und Rekontextualisieren individueller Sätze erlaubt ihre Neuinterpretation und ihre Überführung in kollektive Wissensbestände. Einzelsätze partizipieren an lokalen Kulturen des Forschens und Lehrens und überqueren zugleich die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft\, Literatur und gesellschaftlicher Öffentlichkeit. Als mobile Kondensate von Wissen geben sie Auskunft über komplexe\, sich transformierende Systeme wie Wissenschaft\, Recht\, Religion\, Kunst\, Politik und Medien\, in denen sie ihre Wirkmacht entfalten. Die Tagung fragt nach der Poetik\, Funktion und Epistemologie von Einzelsätzen in verschiedenen wissensgeschichtlichen Kontexten von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. \nInformation und Anmeldung:\nwissenskulturen@germlit.rwth-aachen.de \nProgramm: \nMittwoch\, 11.06.2025 \nBegrüßung/Einführung \n15.00-15.45 | Gabriele Gramelsberger\, Christian Metz\, Caroline Torra-Mattenklott\, Klaus Freitag (Aachen): Der singuläre Satz als prägnante Form \n15.45-16.45 | Winfried Menninghaus (Berlin): Drei Faktoren memorabler Einzelsätze \nPause \n17.00-18.00 | Elisabetta Mengaldo (Padua): Sätze als verdichtete Formeln. Lichtenbergs Marginalien und seine Sudelbücher \nAbendveranstaltung \n20.00 | Lesung und Gespräch von und mit Oswald Egger \nOrt: Raststätte\, Kulturraum Aachen\, Lothringerstraße 23\, 52062 Aachen \nModeration: Christian Metz und Sarah Goeth \nDonnerstag\, 12.06.2025 \nEpistemologie mathematischer und physikalischer Einzelsätze \n09.30-10.30 | Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen): Protokollsatzdebatte – Überprüfbare singuläre Sätze \n10.30-11.30 | Michael Friedman (Bonn): Blumenberg\, Wittgenstein und (mathematische) Elementarsätze \nPause \n12.00-13.00 | Arianna Borrelli (Aachen/Berlin): Erhaltungssätze: Die Rolle der Sprache in der Konstruktion naturwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis \nMittagspause \n14.30-15.30 | Aura Heydenreich (Erlangen): „Von Stund an sollen Raum für sich und Zeit für sich völlig zu Schatten herabsinken…“ Narratologie und historische Epistemologie von Einsteins/Minkowskis Raumzeit in der Relativitätstheorie \nPause \n Singuläre Sätze und ihr Umfeld: Kompilation\, Kontextualisierung\, Vernetzung \n16.00-17.00 | Christian Kaiser (Bonn): Die Methodik des Samplings philosophischer Einzelsätze in medizinischen Quaestiones des Mittelalters \n17.00-18.00 | Manfred Eikelmann (Bochum): Denkwürdige Spruchszenen. Wissenspraktiken in den Apophthegmata des Erasmus von Rotterdam und ihrer ersten deutschen Übersetzung (1531- 1535\, 1534) \nFreitag\, 13.06.2025 \nÄsthetik\, Politik und Wirkkraft singulärer Sätze \n09.30-10.30 | Anne Storch (Köln): Der Satz\, der am Anfang ist \n10.30-11.30 | Sabrina Blank (Aachen): Von der Fälschung zum legitimierten Rechtsanspruch des Papstes: Die Tragweite des singulären (Grund-)Satzes der päpstlichen Nichtjudizierbarkeit im Mittelalter \nPause \n12.00-13.00 | Johannes Engels (Köln): Die Sentenzen der Sieben Weisen des antiken Griechenlands als ein Beispiel epochen-übergreifend einflussreicher ‚singulärer Sätze‘ 13.00-13.30 | Abschlussdiskussion \nHier das Programm als pdf-Datei \nBildnachweis Header:\nIsaac Newtons Eintrag in Andreas Arnolds album amicorum\, 8. November 1681. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel: Cod. Guelf. 226 Blank.\, folio 82r. (public domain) \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/der-singulare-satz/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250618T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Metascience as the Social Hygiene Movement of Science Studies - Bart Penders
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMetascience and its more activist sibling\, scientific reform\, seek to rebuild public and peer trust for embattled fields or disciplines through the proposal\, development and testing of new bureaucratic procedures for experimentation and publication in science. In the expanding STS universe\, metascience is a qualitatively different addition\, located outside of the HPS sphere and drawing concepts and methods primarily from psychology and epidemiology. \nMetascience’s tendency to build procedures and infrastructures is primarily motivated to keep things out of scientific practice: researcher degrees of freedom\, bias\, social\, political and economic influence and more. This lecture explores how the 19th-century hygienist movement can serve as a metaphor for contemporary scientific reform\, in which reformers act as “procedural hygienists.” Drawing on Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger\, I will argue that just as the hygienists sought to impose order and cleanliness on the physical environment\, today’s reformers aim to purify scientific procedures\, addressing concerns of pollution in the form of bias\, error\, and opacity. \nI will draw attention especially to the role of statistics as part of procedural hygiene. In both 19th century hygienist movements and in contemporary scientific reform movements\, they are used to quantify and display contamination\, purify data\, assert authority and legitimacy\, and build trust. They also come with the risk of epistemic injustice and the opacity of the moral agenda underpinning definitions of purity. To this end\, I will ask how metascience is positioned relative to an expanding STS. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/metascience-as-the-social-hygiene-movement-of-science-studies-bart-penders/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250625T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250620T075355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T075534Z
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SUMMARY:Vortrag "Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Caspar Hirschi from the University of St. Gallen will give a talk on “A child of the knowledge economy? On the history of the history of knowledge” (“Ein Kind der Wissensökonomie? Zur Geschichte der Wissensgeschichte”) in the KHK c:o/re lecture hall. The talk will be held in German. \nEveryone is cordially invited to attend! \nFor further information and registration\, please contact Sandra Dresia: dresia@histinst.rwth-aachen.de
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/vortrag-ein-kind-der-wissensokonomie-zur-geschichte-der-wissensgeschichte/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250626T230000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250220T153113Z
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SUMMARY:Talk & Discussion "Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds"
DESCRIPTION:Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies are thereby set in motion and exposed to the elements? And how will our cities change when work is no longer tied to spaces\, but is controlled by an ephemeral architecture of routes\, data and likes? \nThe promise of services that can be delivered directly to your doorstep around the clock has now become part of everyday life. However\, platforms such as Uber Eats\, Gorillas and Lieferando are operated at the expense of migrants\, who are frequently subjected to precarious working conditions. Digital interfaces conceal the material conditions that make such services possible initially. \nThe evening brings people together who work in the digital economy\, in the context of app-based delivery services\, logistics platforms or the care secctor. What future of work becomes visible here\, and what future do we want? The audience is invited to open discussions\, personal assessments and solidarity-based networking. \nWith Janne Martha Lentz\, Semih Yalcin\, Hedi Tounsi\, Sebastian Randerath\, metroZones e.V. / Jochen Becker and more. \n“Work. Clicks and Crowds” is the start of the new series “Hidden Futures” at PACT\, which is being developed in cooperation with the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) | RWTH Aachen University. The series looks at the material conditions of a variety of models of the future developed in the present. \nHeader photo: Hedi Tounsi\, 2023 \n 
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/hidden-futures-work-clicks-crowds/
LOCATION:PACT Zollverein\, Bullmannaue 20a\, Essen\, 45327\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250702T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250702T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250409T072650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T074541Z
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SUMMARY:Data Behaviorism: A History - Daniela Wentz
DESCRIPTION:Due to the heat\, the lecture will only take place online.  \nAbstract: \nIs behaviorism a revenant? This talk traces the emergence and expansion of data behaviorism – an epistemic and technical regime that models and governs human action through behavioral data and has shaped key infrastructures of prediction\, recommendation\, and control in contemporary digital systems. Drawing on historical case studies from mid-century behaviorist psychology\, this talk interrogates the historical and epistemological foundations of data behaviorism by asking whether the behavioral logics underpinning today’s algorithmic systems represent a rupture – or rather an expansion – of earlier modes of governing conduct. Engaging critically with contemporary diagnoses of data-driven control\, it explores how the capture\, formalization\, and modulation of behavior have long structured practices of intervention. By foregrounding its historical trajectories\, I aim to open up data behaviorism to critical scrutiny from an STS perspective. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nPlease register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/data-behaviorism-a-history-daniela-wentz/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250710T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250711T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250620T075132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T090712Z
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SUMMARY:Tagung "Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen\, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess"
DESCRIPTION:Tagung “Illustratives Denken – Zur Rolle von Zeichnungen\, Scribbles und Visualisierungen im wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess” by the Aachen Competence Centre for the History of Science (AKWG) is organizing the AKWG Conference 2025 in cooperation with the Chair of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology and the KHK c:o/re of RWTH Aachen University. The event will be held in German. \nAbstract: \nDas Aachener Kompetenzzentrum Wissenschaftsgeschichte (AKWG) organisiert in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie und Technikphilosophie sowie dem Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Kulturen des Forschens die AKWG Tagung 2025. Thema ist das illustrative Denken\, das anhand von Zeichnungen\, Scribbles und Visualisierungen den wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungsprozess voranbringt. Zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte lassen sich hier finden. Auch ist das Thema nicht neu\, doch soll noch einmal vertieft nach der epistemischen Rolle des illustrativen Denkens gefragt werden. \nWeitere Informationen finden sich auf der Website des AKWG und im Veranstaltungsprogramm.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/tagung-illustratives-denken-zur-rolle-von-zeichnungen-scribbles-und-visualisierungen-im-wissenschaftlichen-entdeckungsprozess/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250716T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250716T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250409T072806Z
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SUMMARY:How Uncertainty is Rendered Residual - Carsten Reinhardt
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our summer semester 2025 Lecture Series Expanding Science and Technology Studies. \nAbstract: \nResidual Uncertainty is a historiographical concept of mine that combines the contingency part of traditional historiography with an approach featuring chemical residues as “matter out of place\, time\, and reason”. In my lecture\, I wish to further develop the concept through addressing social processes that enable uncertainty to become a permanent and powerful\, yet invisible\, as well as a flexible and scientific\, but unquestionable\, feature of society. In other words\, I hope to answer the question: How is uncertainty rendered residual? I seek answers in the practices\, concepts\, and organizational forms of mid-twentieth-century regulatory science\, embedded in the executive branch of government. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/how-uncertainty-is-rendered-residual/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2025
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop "Cultures of Credence: Mind Control and Other Fringe Epistemologies"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the borderlands of knowing\, where knowledge claims are made and rejected\, and where credibility is negotiated through appeals to evidence\, replication\, plausibility\, and authority. Using concepts from history\, philosophy\, and STS\, this workshop examines such subjects as mind control and its attendant sounds\, the nature of evidence and its technologies\, and how such subjects may be addressed in the classroom. \nThe immediate reason for this workshop is an exhibition on “Mind Control” planned for 2027 at MIT\, for which James Kennaway\, Hannah Rogers\, and Bernd Bösel submitted a proposal on the sonic dimensions of sound control in factional and fictional accounts. Since the proposal has now made it to the second round of reviews\, we want to invite James Kennaway to Aachen to convene and talk in person about the details of our possible contribution.  \nAt the same time\, we want to open up our discussions to what we call fringe epistemologies. Fringe claims are often dismissed via demarcation criteria\, yet as Pinch and Collins (1979) demonstrate\, these criteria (like repeatability) are themselves culturally variable and embedded in tacit judgments about competence and plausibility. In the case of mind control or UFO encounters\, skepticism frequently precedes investigation\, rendering some claims “unscientific” by default. As with parapsychology\, the invocation of fraud or delusion often replaces empirical scrutiny with metaphysical certainty (Pinch 1979). Following work by Pinch and Collins (1979)\, Lewis and Bartlett (2024\, forthcoming)\, and others\, we treat fringe phenomena not as “pseudo-science” to be debunked\, but as sites that expose how demarcation works—how standards like repeatability or falsifiability are socially and culturally contingent\, invoked more often to maintain scientific authority than to evaluate claims. By exploring the epistemic and institutional politics that exclude alien encounters or telepathy from science\, we learn not only about the fringe but about science itself.  \nTogether\, we ask: \n•	What counts as credible evidence\, and who decides? \n•	How is “rigor” constructed or attributed in the fringe? \n•	What counts as a “collection” (of evidence\, anomalies\, artefacts)? \n•	What kinds of absences (bodies\, instruments\, data) become presences? \n•	What role do aesthetics\, collections\, and material culture play in shaping belief? \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. \n References: \nBösel\, B.\, & Kennaway\, J. (2025). Mind Control: Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft vol. 32.\nLewis\, J.\, & Bartlett\, A. (forthcoming 2026). Bigfooters and scientific inquiry: On the borderlands of legitimate science. Routledge.\nLewis\, J.\, & Bartlett\, A. (2024). The Shape of Bigfoot: Transmuting Absences into Credible Knowledge Claims. Cultural Sociology.\nPinch\, T. J. (1979). Normal Explanations of the Paranormal: The Demarcation Problem and Fraud in Parapsychology. Social Studies of Science\, 9(3)\, 329-348.\nCollins\, H. M.\, & Pinch\, T. J. (1979). The construction of the paranormal: Nothing unscientific is happening. In R. Wallis (Ed.)\, . The Sociological Review\, 27(S1).
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-cultures-of-credence-mind-control-and-other-fringe-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251022T183000
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SUMMARY:Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing\, AI\, and Robotics - Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen)
DESCRIPTION:‼️ Unfortunately\, tonight’s lecture by Gabriele Gramelsberger has to be canceled due to illness.\nWe hope to see you next week for Anna Tuschling’s lecture on “Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI”. \nAbstract: \nCurrent developments in the fields of simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown that the complexity of digital tools has exceeded the level of human understanding. We can no longer comprehend\, understand or explain the results that AI delivers. Even AI deceptions and hallucinations are now almost impossible to detect. This raises the question of the relationship between humans and their technology anew. Are technologies as instruments useful extensions of human capabilities\, as it was understood in the classical philosophy of technology\, or are we now extensions of our technologies? Will AI dominate and manipulate us in the near future? \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digital-complexity-de-anthropological-trends-in-computing-ai-and-robotics-gabriele-gramelsberger-aachen/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251029T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Digitality as a Triad: From the Love Letter to Emotion AI - Anna Tuschling (Bochum)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe lecture presents various historical and contemporary concepts of digitality that highlight the three characteristics of digital systems: discreteness\, arbitrariness\, and systematicity. In short\, digitality is often understood as a triad that applies not only to modern electronic computers but also to analog sign and writing systems. The lecture examines this form of digital complexity in terms of its epistemic and ontological status on the one hand\, and in relation to historical changes in the coding of qualities such as affectivity and emotionality on the other. Although digitality as a triad allows us to draw a line from love letters to emotional AI as historically varying forms of coding\, it by no means precludes a critique of AI. Rather\, systematically focusing on digital complexity helps us understand how emotions are to be made computable and enables us in the humanities to define more clearly what “emotion” and “affect” mean in the approaches of affective computing and emotion AI. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/digitality-as-a-triad-from-the-love-letter-to-emotion-ai-anna-tuschling-bochum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Kick-off Event: Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to our kick-off event for the Freedom of Research Summit 2025\, featuring an online talk by Ines Pohl\, the Washington Bureau Chief at Deutsche Welle. \nProgram: \n14:00–14:15: Welcome remarks\n14:15–15:00: Talk by Ines Pohl (via Zoom)\n15:00–15:30: Questions and discussion\n15:30–15:45: Coffee break\n15:45–16:45: World Café\n16:45–17:00: Summary and end \nAbstract: \nThe United States has long been a beacon for freedom of research and expression. People from around the globe have come to this country to enjoy high-quality laboratories\, collaborate with international colleagues\, and thrive in an ideal environment for brilliant minds. However\, this landscape has changed dramatically since Donald Trump’s second term. Universities are facing challenges and lawsuits\, while students and faculty are increasingly concerned about their status\, often hesitant to speak on camera due to fears about the evolving work environment. \nInes Pohl\, a Nieman Fellow who studied at Harvard for a year\, has been covering these changes in the country for many years. She has engaged with professors and students on campus and\, as a White House foreign press pooler\, has had the opportunity to experience Donald Trump firsthand in the Oval Office. \nIn her talk\, she will share her insights on what makes Trump still successful\, what the world can learn from his rise\, and how individuals can stand firm in their beliefs without resorting to self-censorship out of fear of retribution. \nIf you would like to attend\, please send a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/kick-off-event-freedom-of-research-a-european-summit-europe-in-times-of-division/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T170000
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SUMMARY:Freedom of Research: A European Summit – Europe in Times of Division
DESCRIPTION:Europe stands at a crossroads: Political polarization\, disinformation\, and social fragmentation threaten the cohesion of our continent. National interests clash\, while external crises put increasing pressure on our democracies. At the same time\, science is under strain – facing targeted disinformation\, political interference\, and restrictions on academic freedom. How can we uphold shared values\, safeguard scientific exchange\, and strengthen trust in European institutions in times of division? \nUnder the motto “Europe in Times of Divison”\, the Summit will explore these pressing questions in various event formats and seek ways to build bridges – between nations\, generations\, and social groups\, as well as between politics\, business\, and science. \nThis “This Summit has three parts”: Starting with a festive evening event on November 5\, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm in the Coronation Hall in Aachen Town Hall. Following with a symposium on the next day on November 6\, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm in the Generali-Saal of SuperC at RWTH Aachen University. And ending with the Stand-up FoR Science NIGHT on 6 November\, starting at 6:30 pm at the Apollo Bar & Kino\, Aachen. \nFor more information about the program\, check out the event website. \nThe Summit is organized by the Charlemagne Prize Foundation and RWTH Aachen University’s Knowledge Hub and Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re).
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/freedom-of-research-symposium-2/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen University – Super C\, Templergraben 57\, Aachen\, 52062
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251112T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
CREATED:20250926T101655Z
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SUMMARY:Computer Science and Computer Use in Public Administration in Switzerland (1960-1984) - Ricky Wichum
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn my presentation\, I examine the digital culture of public administration in Switzerland from 1960 to 1990. The perspective on Switzerland is significant for the history of computing because the country lacks its own computer industry\, but has an internationally well-connected computer science department at ETH Zurich. As I will demonstrate\, numerous formal and informal interactions took place between ETH’s computer science department and government agencies\, which significantly influenced both sides’ work with computers. \nThis presentation focuses on debates about data protection in Switzerland during the mid-1970s. I argue that data protection can be seen as a trading zone between academic computer science and administrative computer use. Despite their different interests\, both sides agree to cooperate for a time. While the administration was eager to avoid federal laws and relied on the data protection mechanisms of the computer itself (and the computer scientists who promoted trust in the computer with public data)\, the academics used the bureaucratic routines of data processing and data protection as inspiration for teaching and research in the newly established discipline. Finally\, I would like to speculate on whether elements of a political theory of digital societies can be found in the administrative knowledge of computer science. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/computer-science-and-computer-use-in-public-administration-in-switzerland-1960-1984-ricky-wichum/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251126T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T184456
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SUMMARY:Stochastic Systems - Dirk Baecker (Friedrichshafen)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDigital complexity eludes human understanding not only because it is based on the synchronization of incommensurable systems\, but also because each of these systems operates stochastically. We owe this insight to the “synthetic intelligence” (Brian Cantwell Smith) of machine learning models. An initially random variation of model assumptions enables the discovery and description of chance-dependent structures of an object or field ‘out there’. Stochastic systems “tame” (Ian Hacking) chance with the help of chance. This may apply not only to artificial systems\, but also to neural\, mental\, and social systems. And perhaps their stochasticity is the condition of possibility for their synchronization\, which can only ever be temporary. The lecture outlines a basic understanding of technology\, society\, consciousness\, and the brain in order to plausibly demonstrate that we are dealing with stochastic systems here. It discusses three concepts that can be used to describe the synchronization of these systems. The concept of information comes from computer science and formulates a relational understanding of information. The concept of feedback comes from cybernetics and brings the observer into play. And the concept of chance comes from stochastics and establishes a medial as well as formal understanding of reality. Digital complexity arises from the unavailability of the difference between the systems involved. \nThis event is part of our winter term 2025/26 Lecture Series Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://test.khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/stochastic-systems-dirk-baecker-friedrichshafen/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 25/26
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